- Encryption Fun Ways to Change Behavior and Improve Security
Fun can act as positive reinforcement for security behaviors—more powerful than negative reinforcement. Ideas include rewarding badge swipes with jokes, entering complex password users in raffles,...
- Malware 4 Steps to Combat Malware Enterprise-Wide: New Article
Treating malware infections as independent events—cleaning up and moving on—doesn't keep pace with evolving attack tactics. Effective enterprise malware defense requires detecting propagation...
- Training Developing Cybersecurity Skills Through Deliberate Practice
Years of experience alone don't create expertise—improvement requires deliberate practice with immediate feedback and coaching. Security professionals should form peer relationships, identify...
- Tools How to Design Security Warning Messages to Protect Users
Effective security warnings make the safest button most visible, stay brief while providing context, avoid technical jargon, and don't overwhelm users with repeated prompts. Microsoft's "Enable...
- Training What is a Cybersecurity Expert?
Three types of security experts: specialists with superior performance in domains like forensics or network defense, generalists with extensive business understanding, and architects who piece...
- Malware Analyzing Suspicious PDF Files With PDF Stream Dumper
PDF Stream Dumper is a free Windows tool with GUI for analyzing suspicious PDFs. It scans for known exploits, navigates object structures, decodes streams, and includes a JavaScript interpreter for...